High Availability Update: You can now vote our talk into the OpenStack summit!

Posted on Thu 21 February 2013 in blog • Tagged with Conference, OpenStack • 1 min read

For the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Portland, Syed Armani and I have submitted a talk on OpenStack high availability. Here’s how you can make sure it makes it into the program.

Our talk, More reliable, more resilient, more redundant: High Availability Update for Grizzly and beyond, is an extended …


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MySQL High Availability Deep Dive

Posted on Mon 03 December 2012 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, MySQL, Pacemaker, Galera • 1 min read

This is a tutorial that Yves Trudeau and I presented at the Percona Live UK 2012 conference in London. It covers Pacemaker integration with DRBD, MySQL Replication, and Galera.


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GlusterFS in High Availability Clusters

Posted on Thu 08 November 2012 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, GlusterFS • 1 min read

My Pacemaker presentation from the GlusterFS Workshop at LinuxCon Europe 2012. Presented in Barcelona in November of 2012, this is a overview of integrating GlusterFS with the Pacemaker cluster stack.

This tutorial gives an overview of

  • The Pacemaker stack,
  • Using GlusterFS for Pacemaker storage,
  • Managing GlusterFS volumes from Pacemaker.

My …


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Hands-On With Ceph

Posted on Thu 08 November 2012 in presentations • Tagged with Ceph, Conference • 1 min read

My Ceph tutorial from LinuxCon Europe 2012. Presented in Barcelona in November of 2012, this is a dense summary of the features of the Ceph distributed storage stack.

This tutorial gives an overview of

  • Native RADOS object storage,
  • The RBD block device,
  • ReSTful object storage with radosgw,
  • the Ceph distributed …

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Talking Ceph and GlusterFS at LinuxCon Europe

Posted on Wed 24 October 2012 in blog • Tagged with Ceph, Conference, GlusterFS • 1 min read

Early next month, I’ll be off to Barcelona for speaking at LinuxCon Europe. Here’s an overview of my talks.

November 5-7, the Linux Foundation is holding the annual LinuxCon Europe in one of Europe’s most beautiful cities — some say the most beautiful — Barcelona. I will be attending …


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